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The Rocky Ride of Break-even-inflation rates.
The correlation matrix between break-even inflation rate movements and real interest rate movements across several countries shows puzzling features. Correlation is significantly positive for nearly all cross-border pairs whereas it is nil, positive or negative unsystematically within countries. By means of a correlation matrix decomposition, we provide an explanation for this puzzle.Inflation-linked bonds ; Break-even inflation rates
The Causality of Supply Relationships
This study examines the 'logic' or underlying causality of supply relationships. It develops and tests hypotheses, in a LISREL model, on detailed data for 553, 450 and 226 supply relationships in the US, Japanese and European automobile industries. The differences found between the three regions seem small, given the received view that there are fundamental differences between 'Japanese' and 'Western' contracting. However, the differences that remain suggest that in the US perhaps the 'Japanese system' has been surpassed, in a 'third way' that combines the advantages of sufficiently durable relations with the advantages of an open system with great variety.Automobile industries;Learning theory;Social exchange theory;Supply relationships;commitment
National and international freight transport models: overview and ideas for further development
This paper contains a review of the literature on freight transport models, focussing on the types of models that have been developed since the nineties for forecasting, policy simulation and project evaluation at the national and international level. Models for production, attraction, distribution, modal split and assignment are discussed in the paper. Furthermore, the paper also includes a number of ideas for future development, especially for the regional and urban components within national freight transport models
National carriers, market power and consumer loyalty:A study of the deregulatory international airline industry
The asymptotic regimes of tilted Bianchi II cosmologies
In this paper we give, for the first time, a complete description of the
dynamics of tilted spatially homogeneous cosmologies of Bianchi type II. The
source is assumed to be a perfect fluid with equation of state , where is a constant. We show that unless the perfect fluid is
stiff, the tilt destabilizes the Kasner solutions, leading to a Mixmaster-like
initial singularity, with the tilt being dynamically significant. At late times
the tilt becomes dynamically negligible unless the equation of state parameter
satisfies . We also find that the tilt does not destabilize
the flat FL model, with the result that the presence of tilt increases the
likelihood of intermediate isotropization
Determinants of poverty in Kenya : a household level analysis
poverty;statistical analysis;measurement;Kenya;household surveys
On the Relation between Subglacial Tills and the Substratum in Western AllgÀu (Germany)
KorngröĂen-, Kies- und Schwermineralanalysen wĂŒrmzeitlicher GrundmorĂ€nen-Ablagerungen des Rheingletschers im baden-wĂŒrttembergischen Alpenvorland zeigen einen meist relativ niedrigen EinfluĂ des aus Molasse bestehenden Substrats auf die Zusammensetzung dieser Sedimente. Auf Grund theoretischer Ăberlegungen und groĂmorphologischer Beobachtungen wird geschlossen, daĂ auch die Aufnahme prĂ€existierender quartĂ€rer Ablagerungen untergeordnet war und daĂ die Petrographie der MorĂ€nen-Ablagerungen hauptsĂ€chlich bestimmt wird vom wĂ€hrend der letzten Vorland-Vergletscherung vom Rheingletscher ins Vorland transportierten Schutt.researc
Dynamics of the molecular orientation field coupled to ions in two-dimensional ferroelectric liquid crystals
Molecular orientation fluctuations in ferroelectric smectic liquid crystals
produce space charges, due to the divergence of the spontaneous polarization.
These space charges interact with mobile ions, so that one must consider the
coupled dynamics of the orientation and ionic degrees of freedom. Previous
theory and light scattering experiments on thin free-standing films of
ferroelectric liquid crystals have not included this coupling, possibly
invalidating their quantitative conclusions. We consider the most important
case of very slow ionic dynamics, compared to rapid orientational fluctuations,
and focus on the use of a short electric field pulse to quench orientational
fluctuations. We find that the resulting change in scattered light intensity
must include a term due to the quasistatic ionic configuration, which has
previously been ignored. In addition to developing the general theory, we
present a simple model to demonstrate the role of this added term
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